Never-Trumpers always know when to fold ’em
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Principled, Reasonable Anti-Trump Republican Mitt Romney is not even running for anything, but he’s still going to kiss Donald Trump’s ass and call it ice cream:
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should have settled the case against former president Donald Trump, but instead made a “political decision” to move forward with a trial. Romney called Democrats’ actions “political malpractice.”
Trump was found guilty in a Manhattan court of falsifying business records after labeling payments to an adult film actress as legal expenses in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
Romney, who is a frequent critic of Trump, provided a comment about the trial to McKay Coppins, a writer for The Atlantic who wrote a biography about Romney.
“Bragg should have settled the case against Trump, as would have been the normal procedure. But he made a political decision,” Romney said, according to Coppins. “Bragg may have won the battle, for now, but he also may have lost the political war. Democrats think they can put out the Trump fire with oxygen. It’s political malpractice.”
I honestly can’t decide if Romney actually believes that Trump would have accepted any “settlement” other than “dismissal of the charges with extreme prejudice followed by Bragg’s resignation” or if that’s actually the settlement Romney had in mind.